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Fandango and Other Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bryan Karetnyk (Translator), Barry Scherr (Introduction by), Alexander GrinSeries:Russian LibraryPublish date:2020-01-07Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231189774ISBN-10:023118977XUPC:9780231189774Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & SovietSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCEKA3Y139

Fandango and Other Stories

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231189774ISBN-10:023118977XUPC:9780231189774Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & SovietSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCEKA3Y139

Alexander Grin, the nom de plume of Alexander Stepanovich Grinevsky (1880-1932), was a leading Russian writer of fantasy and adventure, most famous for the novel Scarlet Sails. His neoromantic fiction won him enduring popularity but eventually ran afoul of the Soviet authorities. Impoverished and increasingly denied the ability to publish, he died of stomach cancer at the age of fifty-one.

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Publisher: Columbia University Press

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